All Yours
The private tasting room at L’Étoile Noire sat behind a heavy curtain at the back of the main dining space.
Emilia Voss and Dante Reyes had been circling each other for two years.
She ran the Michelin-starred kitchen at L’Étoile Noire—thirty-six, precise, ruthless in the way only someone who had clawed her way up from line cook to executive chef could be. Tall, olive-skinned, black hair pulled into a severe knot that never loosened during service, dark eyes that missed nothing. Her chef’s whites were immaculate even at the end of a fourteen-hour shift; her knife work was surgical, her sauces legendary.